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Genotypic status of Babesia microti within the piroplasms.
Parasitology research - 1 Aug 2000
Zahler M, Rinder H, Gothe R
Abstract excerpt
For resolution of the controversial taxonomic status of Babesia microti in relation to other Babesia and Theileria spp. a phylogenetic analysis of an American and a German B. microti strain was performed on the basis of sequences of the small-subunit rRNA gene (rDNA) using distance-matrix, maximum-parsimony, and maximum-likelihood algorithms. Both B. microti isolates clearly separated from a group containing...
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